Hall of Fame: Vanderbilt never looked back
Horse racing and breeding were never a sideshow or hobby for Hall of Fame Pillars of the Turf inductee Alfred G. Vanderbilt, but grew early on into a burning life’s passion.
Mary SimonJul 24, 2015
Horse racing and breeding were never a sideshow or hobby for Hall of Fame Pillars of the Turf inductee Alfred G. Vanderbilt, but grew early on into a burning life’s passion.
Stallions produce far more foals each year and in their lifetimes also exerts a powerful influence on the way we talk about racehorse pedigrees. One hundred or more foals a year and thousands over a lifetime lend themselves to statistical analysis, while one foal per year and perhaps seven or eight in a broodmare’s lifetime does not. How then does one begin to talk about the parentage of 2015 Grade 1 Delaware Handicap winner Sheer Drama?
Grade 3 winner Went the Day Well will begin his stallion career at Las Zainas Farm in Uruguay.
In today's DRF Breeding Today newsletter, we are introducing a new publication for readers -- the Weekly Stakes Report, which provides owners, breeders, and industry participants and fans with comprehensive results of all stakes races held in North America.
Dual classic winner War Emblem, whose years at stud in Japan have been marked by frustration, has been pensioned from stallion duty, and terms have been reached to repatriate him to Old Friends Thoroughbred retirement farm in Georgetown, Ky., with an expected arrival in September.
Gabriel Charles landed the first Grade 1 event of the Del Mar summer meeting when winning the Eddie Read Stakes on July 18. In the process, he also became the first Grade 1 winner for California stallion Street Hero.
Classic-placed Grade 1 winner Danza has been retired and will enter stud for 2016 at Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky.
Great sire that he was, the late Dynaformer has never established himself as a sire of sires. Dynaformer’s son Quiet Force, the winner of the Grade 3 Arlington Handicap on July 11, is unlikely to change that statistic, even if he eventually improves enough to merit a chance at stud, but he is yet another reminder of just how good his late sire was at siring racehorses, no matter their prowess at stud.
Calamity Kate pulled a major upset in last Saturday’s Grade 3 Delaware Oaks, triggering a $110.80 payout as the longest shot on the board. It was the first career stakes victory for the filly, who became the second graded stakes winner of 2015 for veteran sire Yes It’s True, according to Daily Racing Form’s SirePowered Results.
Grade 1 winner Strong Mandate will shuttle to Agricola Icha Solari Ltda. in Chile for the upcoming Southern Hemisphere breeding season.